Pocket-case



(No Model.

' W. B. WHITE.

POCKET CASE.

No. 415,852. Patented Nov. .26, 1889.

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IVILLIAM B. \VHITE, OF QUINCY, MASSACHUSETTS.

POCKET-OAS E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 4i 5,852, datedNovember 26, 1889.

Application filed August 21, 1889. Serial No. 321,537. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM B. WHITE, a citizen of theUnited States,residing at Quincy, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pocket-Cases; and Ido hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, which will enable others skilled in theart to which it appcrtains to make and use the same.

My invention consistsof an improvement in cases made of two pieces ofsuitable material, (preferably of leather) united at the edge by ametallic clamp, as described in Patent No. 175,171, granted to CharlesF. Rumpp, March 21, 1876, and Patent No.

, 289,946, to myself, dated December 11, 1883.

My invention is applicable to a variety of uses, but is intended to beapplied more especially to cases for holding small articles, such ascombs, crochet-needles, thimbles, 87(1; and it consists in forming apocket on one side or both of such a case as is described in theabove-named Letters Patent, in placing on one side or both of such acase a strap desides of the case, thus dividing it into compartments.

In the drawing I have shown a plan of a case embodying my improvements,in which a is the body of the case; b, the metallic clamp which unitesthe several parts to- -gether,both those which form the body of the caseand the pocket c and the strap d.

c is the pocket, formed at the lower end of the case.

(Z is a strap divided into four compartments by means of eyelets e e,and f is a strap attached to the strap d by means of eyelets e e.

In the manufacture of my invention it is intended to place the pocket 0and the strap (Z upon one side or both of the pieces forming the sidesof the case, the edges of the pocket and the strap being even with theedges of the pieces forming the sides of the case. The metallic clamp isthen to be placed on the case, thus securely clamping the edges of thesides of the case and of the pocket and the strap 1). The compartmentsare to be made by means of eyelets, or in any other suitable way, on oneside or both of the material forming the sides of the case before theparts are united, as above described.

I do not claim any particular mode of man ufacturing the said case; but

WVhat I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a case formed of two pieces of leather united at the edge by ametallic clamp, the pocket 0, connected therewith by means of saidclamp, substantially as and for the purpose above described.

2. In a case formed of two pieces of leather united at the edge by ametallic clanfp, the strap 61, connected with the said case by means ofthe said clamp, substantially as and for the purpose above, described.

8. In a case formed of two pieces of leather united at the edge by ametallic clamp, the strap (Z, divided into compartments, substantiallyas and for the purpose above described.

at. In a case formed of two pieces of leather united at the edge by ametallic clamp, the pocket 0 and the strap (Z, in combination,substant-ially as and for the purpose above described.

5. In a case formed of tWo pieces of leather united at the edge by ametallic clamp, the pocket 0, the strap d, and the strap f, incombination, substantially as and for the purpose above described.

6. A case formed of two pieces of leather united at the edge by ametallic clamp, divided into compartments by means of eyelets,

substantially as and for the purpose above described.

\VM. B. \VIIITE. Witnesses:

BESSIE C. Jones, CHAS. H. DREW.

